The purpose of this article is to provide insight into how leaders obtain their power through
language use. The thesis defended is that, at its best, the language of power in leadership …

Collocations are a class of idiomatic expressions comprised of a sequence of words which,
for mostly arbitrary reasons, occur together in a prescribed order. Collocations are not …

Purpose This paper views the phenomenon of offering/user interface complexity as having
competitive strategy-related consequences. Porter’s conception of generic management …

Within much critical research literature, fast-food jobs are presented as offering few employee
advantages. Indeed the disparaging term ‘McJob’ has come to describe low-skill, low-pay, …

This article investigates why management research, which ostensibly embraces scientific
protocols and is reported to be practically relevant, is often not so. The “implications for practice…

There is consensus in literature that transparency (accurate and honest reporting) in
management and business research is desirable. To improve transparency, commentators have …

Purpose Merger waves have typically been viewed through the prism of either corporate
strategy or macro-economics. This paper aims to broaden debate about factors that cause – or …

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the idea that business stewards have a broader
range of societal obligations than maximizing shareholder value, is a mainstream theme in …

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly
because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, …

The practice of institutional bond portfolio management has changed markedly since the late
1980s in response to new financial instruments, investment methodologies, and improved …